Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1945 — Page 4

WAR SOUVENR ~ TRADE BOOMING a Is Realizing Big Profits ~ In Pacific.

"By WILLIAM McGAFFIN 9 Times Foreigm Correspondent ON OKINAWA, May 18, — The, ‘habits of pilots and saflors, coupled with the ingenuity has produced a lucrative souvenir industry here overnight. ‘Jap battle flags and aluminum wrist-watch bands, made from parts of shot down Jap planes, are two of the most popular “eollector’s” items, i Tt is whispered Nh that there have ' not been enough Jap ' planes destroyed over land Lod to provide mate“if pial for all the L 4 “bonafide » Jap vod auminum . wristMr. MeGaffin watch bands being sold and that maybe some of the metal is American scrap. As for Jap battle flags, some of the souvenir “merchants” wouldn't think of knocking their competitors, but, confidentially, they suggest that every Jap flag being sold here is not strictly “made in Japan.” The standard price of the Jap battle flag you see on display with lacquer ware and other souvenirs in a little tent at the edge of the airfield is two boftles of whiskey, or $35.

Just a Flour Sack Seabees and crewmen on various ships make Jap airplane wrist-watch . bands in their spare time at much L. lower prices. One was made for your correspondent for $2.50 by ‘Yeoman 23-¢ Don. E. Freeman, 918 Riverside ‘st, Janesville, Wis, and ‘Yeoman 3-¢ Jack Elledge, 4140 Washington ave., St. Louis. Some-of our friends in the souvenir business let us in on the secret of how Jap battle flags could be manufactured if one had a mind to. : . _ You take a white flour sack or, if you're lucky enough to get-hold of one, a white silk cargo parachute after cargo has been dropped in it. > You borrow some mercurochrome i from your pals in the first aid sta- * tion and paint a big red “meat pall” in the middle of the white field. Then you find ‘some Jap money and trace Jap characters from it in black ink around the red ball. A -satisfactory iritation for customers who ‘cannot read Japanese. ? Called ‘Suckers’ Both pilots and “swobbies” are in the money, especially the latter, be- ;. cause of the months of back pay which accumulates during the long period they are unable to get off ship. Both are known to the souvenir trade as “suckers” because— unable to pick up souvenirs themselves—they are eager and willing to buy anything at a big price, Once a G. 1. approached your correspondent with a Jap sword which he had “gone to great pains to obtain.” It had beer hanging from a rafter in a cave. Afraid it might be booby trapped, they had tied a rope around it and dragged it out with a tank. 3 It was a beautiful sword but the writer didn’t feel that it was beautiful enough to merit trading our $300 Contax camera for it—which is what the G. I. wanted.

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